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●UT-AG: On Thursday, former Utah Attorney General John Swallow launched a bid to regain the office he resigned from in 2013 due to corruption charges that he was later acquitted of. That's turned this year's GOP contest into a three-way race, as incumbent Sean Reyes was already facing an intra-party challenge from another Republican, Utah County Attorney David Leavitt. All three men are competing at the April 25 GOP convention in order to get on the June primary ballot, but as we'll discuss, convention rules mean that at least one of their campaigns will end next month.
Swallow first won office in 2012, when his boss, Mark Shurtleff, retired after three terms, but he didn't have long to celebrate. Just after he was sworn in, businessman Jeremy Johnson accused Swallow of participating in a scheme to bribe U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as a way to terminate a federal investigation into Johnson's online marketing firm.